Significance resources

Significance Workshop reading list

The following lists of references and resources are based on information developed for our Significance Assessment of Collections Workshops. Please feel free to use it to guide your reading in the area. Jump ahead to the section you are interested in by clicking on a title in the list of four blue headings below.

Australia ICOMOS. 2013. The Burra Charter: the Australia ICOMOS Charter for Places of Cultural Significance. Australia International Council on Monuments and Sites, Melbourne. [.pdf download 2 MB] See also entry under Web Resources below.

Australia ICOMOS. 2004. The Illustrated Burra Charter: the Australia ICOMOS Charter for Places of Cultural Significance. Australia International Council on Monuments and Sites, Melbourne.

Australia ICOMOS. 2004. Burra 25. Historic Environment. Vol. 18 (1).

Australian Institute for the Conservation of Cultural Material Inc., (AICCM) Code of Practice Suggested Amendments in AICCM Newsletter, September 2000, insert [.pdf download] See also entry at Web Resources below for resulting 2002 Code of Practice - all suggested amendments were adopted.

Cunningham, A. 2006. Talking with the Taxman about Poetry: the NAA's experiences with consultation on Macro-appraisal. Powerpoint presentation to the Australian Society of Archivists Conference, October, Port Macquarie, New South Wales. National Archives of Australia. [.pdf download] See also entries from Cunningham and the National Archives of Australia below in Web Resources.

Curthoys, A. and A. McGrath. 2009. How to Write History that People Want to Read. University of New South Wales Press, Sydney.

Ford, B. and Smith, N. 2011. The Development of a Significance-based Lighting Framework at the National Museum of Australia. AICCM Bulletin. Vol 32: 80-86. [.pdf download]

Harrison, R. 2013. Forgetting to Remember, Remembering to Forget: late modern heritage practices, sustainability and the 'crisis' of accumulation of the past. Paper presented to the inaugural Conference of the Association for Critical Heritage Studies, Gothenburg, Sweden, June 2012. International Journal of Heritage Studies. Vol. 19 (6).

Hummeln, I. and D. Sillé. 1999. The Decision-making Model for the Conservation and Restoration of Modern and Contemporary Art. In I. Hummeln and D. Sille (eds) Modern Art: Who Cares? An interdisciplinary research project and an international symposium on the conservation of modern and contemporary art. Archetype Publications: 164-172.

Pearson, C. 1982. Code of Ethics and Guidance for Conservation Practice. AICCM Bulletin. Vol. 8 (1&2): 2-25. Note Appendix example of Powerhouse Museum Collection Policy by David Hill, highlighting the role of significance in conservation decision-making, in contrast to the two international examples in the other appendices. [.pdf download. Note: despite appearances all content is present in this .pdf]

Australian Institute for the Conservation of Cultural Material Inc (AICCM)., 2002 Code of Ethics and Code of Practice. Note changes in emphasis, including adjusting conservation treatment solutions in line with significance (CoP Item 4), environmental resources, and Indigenous matters (CoP Item 5) from earlier version. See also entry above under General References for the AICCM.

Australian Memory of the World Program (uses Significance (2001) [.pdf download 2.4 MB] criteria): http://www.amw.org.au/. See also entry below under 'UNESCO Memory of the World Programme'